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News with Logic

Published in FY20

Stanford psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt, the author of Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, says Nextdoor reduced racial profiling by 75 percent by introducing a tiny bit of friction for users.

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Published in FY19 or earlier

Why haven’t we stopped climate change? We’re not wired to empathize with our descendants.

By Jamil Zaki
AUGUST 22, 2019
 
About 70 percent of Americans believe that the climate is changing, most acknowledge that this change reflects human activity
Published in FY19 or earlier

In their evaluations of high-performing venture capital funds, professional investors rate white-led teams more favorably than they do black-led teams with identical credentials, a new Stanford study finds.

BY MELISSA DE WITTE

When a black

Published in FY19 or earlier

A new national study, co-authored by Stanford scholars, shows that high school students who took a course to cultivate positive beliefs about learning earned higher grades and took more challenging classes.

BY MELISSA DE WITTE

Actions not only speak

Published in FY19 or earlier

How people act and react to the world around them – through their spatial thinking – shapes how they think, Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky says.

BY MELISSA DE WITTE

Actions not only speak louder than words, they also happen first and faster